Well Wishes Quotes

• A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

  Dan Rather

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Negative People

  FaceBook post by Dan Rather from Jul 21, 2014

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• I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

  John Green

  Happiness, Happy, Best Wishes

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• You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Wish, World

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• When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Laughter, Blessing

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• My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well

  Patty Griffin

  Wish, Way, Darling

  Song: Nobody's Crying, Album: 1000 Kisses

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Perseverance, Men

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, part II, book IV, chapter 38., 1605-1615.

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• We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

  Fiona Apple

  Wish, Electricity, Wells

  Song: Werewolf, Album: The Idler Wheel..., 2012

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• You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Want You Back, Sky, Wish

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• Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

  S.A. Bodeen

  Hands, Wish, Firsts

  S. A. Bodeen (2008). “The Compound”, p.15, Feiwel & Friends

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• Testing oneself is best when done alone.

  Jimmy Carter

  Done, Testing, Oneself

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• We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

  Li Peng

  Country, Long, Wish

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• One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

  John Muir

  Heart, Men, People

  John Muir (2017). “The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness”, p.8, Vertebrate Publishing

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• A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

  David Seabury

  Wise, Best Wishes, Selfishness

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• That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

  James M. Barrie

  Jealousy, Wedding, Wish

  Quality Street (performed 1901, pubd. 1913) act 1

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• I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Brain

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [34]

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• If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

  Joyce Maynard

  Girl, Writing, Men

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• How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Writing, Good Friend, Intelligent

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• All of you are aware of the journey I've taken this past year and I just want to relay to all of the people that sent along their prayers and well wishes, my heartfelt thanks. It was truly overwhelming to me and my family the outpouring that we received from the Twin Cities community and from across the Midwest.

  Fred Hoiberg

  Prayer, Taken, Past

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• The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Wish, Reform, May

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• Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

  Richard Morris Hunt

  Hunting, Goal, House

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• Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.

  Tennessee Williams

  Artist, Thinking, Two

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• Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall

  Thom Yorke

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Song: The Clock, 2009

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• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wish, World, Cooperation

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I am the servant of the servant of God, and I am the well-wishing instrument of God's love towards every living being, with all humility. The emergence of that realization is the greatest attainment in life.

  Radhanath Swami

  Humility, Servant Of God, Wish

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